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[Dissolution of gallbladder lithiasis with methyl-tert-butyl-ether. Preliminary results: 9 cases]
C L Liguory1, J F Lefèbvre, D Bonnel
1Centre médico-chirurgical de l'Alma, Paris.
Presse Medicale (Paris, France : 1983)
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
Nine patients with gallstones were treated by injection of methyl-tert-butyl-ether (MTBE) into the gallbladder. Complete or incomplete dissolution was observed in 5 of the 9 patients. The 4 failures were due to 2 main factors: poor selection of the patients (2 of them had pigment gallstones) and inadequate mixture with the solvent floating above the bile and gallstones. In addition, 4 complications were noted, all of them being resolved by medical treatment. A better selection of the patients and a more efficient technique of MTBE injection should improve these results.